interest in Archaeology, and strengthening our County Society 

 has taken shape during the course of last year. Your Council 

 have given the matter their careful consideration, and, after 

 friendly conference with those interested in the subject in 

 Buxton and the neighbourhood, it has been arranged that 

 Northern and Southern Sub-committees be appointed by the 

 Council to take charge of local business, and arrange expedi- 

 tions and meetings, with power to elect their own Hon. 

 Secretaries. Mr. W. J. Andrew, of Cadster, near Whaley 

 Bridge, as representing the northern part of the County, has 

 been appointed co-editor with the Rev. F. C. Hipkins. Already 

 forty-eight new applications for membership have been received 

 from the Northern Branch, through its Hon. Sec, Mr. W. R. 

 Bryden, and it is hoped that the total may soon reach a hundred. 



Emboldened by this accession of strength, a room has been 

 hired over Mr. Frost's shop in the Market Place, adjoining 

 the offices of the Hon. Secretary designate, Mr. P. H. Currey, 

 to serve as headquarters of the Society, as a meeting- 

 place for your Council, and as a library where the important 

 collection of Transactions of other Societies received in exchange 

 for our own can be readily accessible to our members. 



Your Council has again lost one of its members, during the 

 course of the year, through the death of Dr. G. H. Milnes. 



W. MALLALIEU, 



Acting Hon. Sec. 

 Swallows^ Rest, 



Ockbrook, Derby. 



March, 1 90 1 . 



